title: Understanding the risky business of adolescence.
abstract: Heightened sensitivity to emotional faces may contribute to less risk taking and susceptibility to peer influence in adolescents. A longitudinal study from Pfeifer et al. reveals a developmental increase in ventral striatum activity in early adolescence in response to emotional faces, which correlates with improved measures of resistance to peer influence and risky behavior.
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. rondahl@berkeley.edu
authors.forename: Ronald
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dahl